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| All This Useless Beauty | 
 enlarge | Artist: Elvis Costello
Label: Warner
Category: Music
List Price: £7.99
Buy Used: £0.79
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 7748
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 093624619826
EAN: 0093624619826
ASIN: B000002N5X
Release Date: May 13, 1996
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | It's Time | | • | Little Atoms | | • | Other End Of The Telescope | | • | All This Useless Beauty | | • | Why Can't A Man Stand Alone | | • | Shallow Grave | | • | Starting To Come To Me | | • | Poor Fractured Atlas | | • | I Want To Vanish | | • | You Bowed Down | | • | Distorted Angel | | • | Complicated Shadows |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Beauty was the third album Elvis Costello released between 1994 and '96. It's also his best collections of the '90s. Something of a hodgepodge, it find Elvis one moment recalling the anglicised soul of Get Happy!, the next making like Grandpa Grunge. Do you prefer Elvis as Roger McGuinn or Marvin Gaye? He tries out a new song-writing partner in Aimee Mann, who co-wrote the lovely waltz tempo opener, "The Other End of the Telescope", but he's also brought back Paul McCartney from his Spike days to co-compose "Shallow Grave". All of which implies Elvis is all over the board. And so what? As the years pass, it's more apparent than ever that Costello has survived because his love--yes, love!--of music. When you think about it, that's an odd notion. Who'd of thought back when Elvis was spewing bile to a new-wave beat, that love, not guilt and revenge, would keep him going. --Steven Stolder
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| Customer Reviews:
 The Most Average Elvis Costello Album of the '90's July 18, 2001
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The album hasn't quite got the passion of 'Brutal Youth' (1994) or the sensitivity and crooning of 'Painted From Memory'(1999)but at least it manages to avoid the overproduction and all round 'plodding' of 'Mighty Like a Rose'. Buy it because its the most recent example of an Attractions record (in my opinion, Elvis' best collaborators) and because as always, Elvis delivers a bunch of great songs
 Stunning vocal and lyrical qualities abound on this album February 16, 2001
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Even though EC trips through many styles here, you get the feeling that he is a man totally at ease with himself both as a writer and singer. The lyrical barbs and vicious wit that he displays on virtually every song confirms a writer at the peak of his form. Listen to his superlative vocal on the title track to find a singer brimming with confidence in his ability. Everyone should have a copy!
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